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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Movie 43′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 8:40am PDTTags: Movie 43, Peter Farrelly, Relativity Media
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Movie 43 Trailer Red BandHere’s a first look at Movie 43, a film that I’ve written about several times here, because I loved those raunchy 70s comedies The Groove Tube and Kentucky Fried Movie, and because the filmmakers who put this together, –Peter Farrelly, Charles Wessler and John Penotti, Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley–assembled such a killer cast of directors and actors for these completely inappropriate comic vignettes. The final cast, in alphabetical order: Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Bobby Cannavale, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, John Hodgman, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet. Relativity Media will release it January 25. Here’s a Red Band trailer:

 

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Germany’s Senator Ups Equity Base By 50% With New Share Issue

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 8:36am PDTTags: Relativity Media, The Intouchables

Germany’s Senator Entertainment has completed a stock issue and sold 100% of the new shares to increase its equity base by about 50%. Earlier this month, the producer/distributor said it was planning tlo issue nearly 10M new shares that would … Read More »

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Relativity, Netflix Sued Over ‘Atlas Shrugged: Part 1′ License Fees

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 30, 2012 @ 5:47pm PDTTags: Atlas Shrugged, Netflix, Relativity Media

Maker of Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 Atlas Productions filed suit today in Los Angeles Superior Court against Relativity Media, RML Acquisitions and Netflix over failure to pay license fees and alleging copyright infringement. Atlas accuses the companies of breach … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Relativity Acquires ‘Paranoia’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 2:33pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival, Paranoia, Relativity Media

Deadline reported this earlier today. Relativity Media makes it official below:

(Beverly Hills, Calif.) May 17, 2012 – Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to market and distribute IM Global’s currently-titled Paranoia, directed by Robert Luketic (21) and starring Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), Oscar®-nominee Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight), Oscar®-nominee Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) and Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class). Production is targeted to begin this summer and the film will release in theatres on September 27, 2013. IM Global will handle international distribution.

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‘Paranoia’ Hangs Heavy Over Cannes; IM Global Making Offshore Deals, Relativity Media Taking U.S. On Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Liam Hemsworth Thriller

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 6:24am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Paranoia, Relativity Media
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EXCLUSIVE: The Robert Luketic-directed thriller Paranoia has emerged as an early hot sales title at Cannes. Relativity Media is negotiating for U.S. distribution rights, and IM Global’s Stuart Ford closing deals in the UK, France, Spain, Germany, … Read More »

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Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson Join ‘Out Of The Furnace’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Christian Bale, Forest Whitaker, Relativity Media, Scott Cooper, Woody Harrelson

The Last King of Scotland Oscar winner and Hunger Games star will round out Scott Cooper’s Out of The Furnace, Relativity announced today. Forest Whitaker, as previously reported by Deadline, and Woody Harrelson join Christian Bale, … Read More »

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Robert Redford, Diane Keaton Eyeing ‘The Most Wonderful Time’ At Relativity Media

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 11:31am PSTTags: Diane Keaton, Relativity Media, Robert Redford
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EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media is acquiring The Most Wonderful Time, a holiday comedy package built around a Steven Rogers script that has Robert Redford and Diane Keaton circling to star, and … Read More »

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Relativity Squeezes YouTube’s The Annoying Orange To Promote ‘Mirror, Mirror’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday February 17, 2012 @ 10:18am PSTTags: Mirror Mirror, Relativity Media, The Annoying Orange

EXCLUSIVE: Don’t ask me why so many young people are enthralled by YouTube’s The Annoying Orange. But millions seem to love the whiny character — and that has impressed Relativity Media. It just became the first movie studio to employ The Annoying Orange to promote a feature film: Mirror, Mirror, the … Read More »

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Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media Sued Today For $44M: “One Of the Greatest Heist Stories Ever Told In The Movie Business”

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 2:32pm PSTTags: Hollywood lawsuits, Relativity Media

EXCLUSIVE: I have just received the copy of a 48-page complaint filed today in the Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of plaintiffs Aramid Entertainment Fund Limited and Aramid Grantor Trust … Read More »

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Universal Drops Hasbro’s Stretch Armstrong Film, Taylor Lautner Out As Star, Relativity Picks Up For April 2014 Release

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 9:21am PSTTags: Hasbro, Relativity Media

BREAKING… UPDATE… Another movie in Hasbro’s groundbreaking deal with Universal Pictures bites the dust. So has another Taylor Lautner project. If you recall, Universal was planning a slate of films based on Hasbro board games beginning with Battleship. Then, the studio put Ouija, Clue, Monopoly and Magic, The Gathering in turnaround. Now, it’s Stretch Armstrong, which Universal at first was determined to make but which now has been dropped and picked up by Relativity Media. The Universal version had Rob Letterman attached to direct and Taylor Lautner attached to star in a whopper of a deal to play the title character. But Deadline has learned that the Twilight Saga star is no longer attached. The Tay-Tay camp is claiming “it was our choice” to pull out of the film, but in fact a project insider told Deadline months ago right after Lautner’s Lionsgate film Abduction bombed that the studio was rethinking the project with Lautner as star but that Hasbro would make the final decision on the status of the project. Looks like that has happened. The Relativity release below makes no mention of Letterman either:

(Beverly Hills, Calif.) January 30, 2012 –Relativity Media has partnered with global branded play company Hasbro, Inc. [NASDAQ-HAS] to develop and produce a live-action tent-pole film based on Stretch Armstrong, the iconic action hero figure launched in the 1970s, it was announced today by Relativity’s Co-President, Tucker Tooley and Hasbro’s President and CEO, Brian Goldner.

Relativity will be the domestic distributor and will release the film internationally through its network of foreign output partners. The film is targeted for an April 11, 2014 release date.

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Relativity Shifts ‘The Raven’, ‘The House At The End Of The Street’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 24, 2012 @ 6:04pm PSTTags: Relativity Media, The House At The End Of The Street, The Raven

Relativity Media today announced a couple of additional release schedule changes. The Edgar Allan Poe serial killer thriller The Raven is shifting to April 27 where the other wide releases will be Universal’s comedy The Five-Year Engagement … Read More »

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It’s Official: Ron Burkle Acquires “Significant” Equity Stake in Relativity

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 23, 2012 @ 1:37pm PSTTags: Relativity Media, Ron Burkle, Ryan Kavanaugh

Report: Ron Burkle Buying Relativity Stake From Elliott Management
Ex-Relativity Media President Michael Joe Leaves Elliott

(West Hollywood, California) January 23, 2012 – Yucaipa Companies, a premier investment firm owned and run by Ron Burkle, today announced that it has purchased a significant equity stake in Relativity Media, a full-fledged film distribution company, television production company, sports agency, Internet and interactive media company. Yucapia’s equity investment follows the successful close of debt financings led by Colbeck Capital, a strategic lender run by Jason Colodne and Jason Beckman, and funded by Burkle.

This investment comes on the heels of the studio’s first year as a full-fledged distribution company. During the past 12 months, the studio has had unprecedented success with two number one opening films; marking Relativity as the only mini-major to achieve such a milestone. It is one of the few mini-majors to have had two films exceed 30 million dollars in domestic box office in their opening weekend.

Over the past year the studio has enjoyed the success of films such as Limitless, The Fighter and most recently Immortals, which has just broken $230 million in worldwide box office receipts, the highest R-rated action opening weekend in 2011, and the third highest opening weekend for 2011 R-rated films.

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Aw Shucks! Relativity Settles Lawsuit With Weinstein Co Over ‘The Crow’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday January 23, 2012 @ 10:05am PSTTags: Relativity Media, The Crow lawsuit, The Weinstein Co

And here I was looking for an old-fashioned Hollywood feud the likes of which would set the bar for generations to come. But instead this diappointing statement just came in that both sides have settled. Last April, when … Read More »

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Relativity Media Begins Laying Off Staff

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday January 19, 2012 @ 9:07pm PSTTags: Hollywood layoffs, Relativity Media, Ryan Kavanaugh

EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: I’ve just learned that Relativity Media has begun Relativity Media Layoffs 2012a process of laying off staffers from the operations and marketing teams. All 10 affected employees were told today. Relativity Media has a total workforce of … Read More »

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Relativity Names Happy Walters and Gregory Shamo Co-COOs; Michael Rosner Is General Counsel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 1:12pm PSTTags: Relativity Media

(Beverly Hills, Calif.) January 11, 2012– Relativity’s CEO Ryan Kavanaugh announced today Relativity has strengthened its senior management team to fortify its ranks and the company’s business operations. Gregory Shamo, current Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & General Counsel and Happy Walters, current President, Relativity Music Group & Rogue Sports have been promoted to Co-Chief Operating Officers and Michael Rosner, formerly Senior Counsel at Loeb & Loeb LLP, has joined Relativity as General Counsel.

In making the announcement, Kavanaugh commented, “We are continuing to reinforce our executive management team as we establish a foothold as a distributor. We are pleased to promote Greg and Happy, and are honored Michael has come aboard. Greg has worked with Relativity both internally and externally and has established some of the company’s biggest deals to date, while Happy’s leadership of the music and sports divisions has been invaluable to the company’s growth. Michael’s expertise and analytical skills make him an asset to this organization. We greatly look forward to all of their contributions and to Relativity’s exciting future ahead.”

In their new capacity, Shamo and Walters will help to guide the company’s strategic direction as well as oversee such areas as legal, corporate affairs, business and legal affairs, human resources, technology and operations departments of Relativity, reporting to Kavanaugh.

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Bloomberg: Ron Burkle Buying Relativity Media Stake From Elliott Management

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 1:47pm PSTTags: Elliott Management Corporation, Relativity Media, Ron Burkle, Ryan Kavanaugh

Burkle’s Yucaipa Buys Music Booking Power Artist Group International
Ex-Relativity Media President Michael Joe Leaves Elliott

Bloomberg is reporting that billionaire Ron Burkle has agreed to buy Elliott Management Corp’s minority stake in Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media, citing two people with knowledge of the … Read More »

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Ex-Relativity Media President Michael Joe Leaves Elliott

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Elliott Management Corporation, Michael Joe, Relativity Media, Ryan Kavanaugh
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Relativity Media’s key backer Elliott Management Corporation has announced the departure of Michael Joe, the former president of Relativity who was plucked from that post by Elliott to watch its investments with Ryan Kavanaugh. Joe had little to do because Elliott has stopped future funding of entertainment industry ventures. How this factors into the future of Relativity Media and Elliott remains to be seen. Here is the announcement:

New York, NY (January 4, 2012) — Elliott Management Corporation and Michael Joe announced today that, in early 2012, he will be leaving the firm to pursue a new opportunity. In his most recent role, Mr. Joe helped oversee Elliott’s investment in Relativity Media and Elliott’s slate financing deal with Universal. Prior to arriving at Elliott, Mr. Joe was President of Relativity Media.

“I cannot think of a better environment to have profoundly expanded my knowledge and understanding of the private fund management business,” said Michael Joe. “However, it became increasingly apparent that on a personal and professional level, my passion is to be an active participant within the media and entertainment industry. I am grateful to the Elliott team and wish them the best in their future endeavors.”

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Relativity Signs With Senator To Handle Distribution In Germany

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 14, 2011 @ 7:24pm PSTTags: Relativity Media

Relativity Media has partnered with German independent producer-distributor Senator Entertainment for all future Relativity movies to be released by Senator in Germany. The deal extends Relativity’s distribution to most major territories except for Japan, Korea and Italy. Under terms of … Read More »

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Who’s Faking ‘Mirror Mirror’ Praise? Hmm…

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday November 23, 2011 @ 3:08am PSTTags: Mirror Mirror, Relativity Media

We know Hollywood studios fake film reviews and movie ads. Now a sharp-eyed blog recently noticed some “strangely optimistic comments” from the same IP address within a 2-hour span after posting Relativity’s Mirror Mirror trailer. Turns out MovieMavericks.com found the exact same comments placed on many other blogs that posted the Mirror Mirror … Read More »

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